Gutta

Gutta

A small conical-shaped ornament resembling a droplet used in groups under the triglyph or the cornice found in Classical architecture.

gutta ( pl. guttae)

gutta:Top , guttae attached to mutules; bottom, detail showing guttae

In Classical architecture, one of a number of pendant ornaments in a rectangular arrangement; each gutta is shaped like an inverted frustum of a cone, i.e., a cone in which the upper tip has been lopped off; usually found on the underside of the mutules of a Doric entablature.

The Iban were by that time traveling throughout Borneo and the region on bejalai (16) expeditions seeking to exploit these new opportunities, in particular in the 1870s following the rise in the gutta percha trade.

Authentic gutta percha balls and hickory-shafted cubs are what golfers tee off with when they sign up for a round of 1880s golf at Old Bandon Golf Links, believed to be the only public course west of the Mississippi where people regularly play golf as it was played when steel, graphite and titanium shafts were unheard of.

His brother Charles was a well established painter who was also instrumental in the manufacture of gutta percha-coated underseacables, used by the electric telegraph to begin the global information highway.

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